Genuinely I think if you have ever come up with a headcanon about a real human person, especially regarding their gender or sexuality, or sat down and written fanfiction about them, you should take a serious critical look about the way you engage with media. It’s creepy and dehumanizing to do and you really should not ever be treating real people the same way you’d treat fake ones for reasons that seem incredibly obvious but clearly aren’t

we need a law to prevent people from publishing fanfic as a book disguised as normal literature. I can't take it anymore

People nowadays are so caught up in the idea that the LGBT community is about inclusivity and that all labels are valid that they forget this isn’t what the community is about. Sometimes it’s good to draw lines in the sand. Bi lesbians don’t exist. Like, you’re either bi or a lesbian but both of those things exclude each other (but that doesn’t mean that there can’t be or aren’t overlapping experiences). Pansexual is just another word for bisexual except now you’re being biphobic (and transphobic and homophobic) about it. Gen Z kids having a dozen microlabels does nothing except make this about individualism instead of a community, it negates the fact that everyone has differing experiences but that we can still unite under one banner.

The validity of something isn’t a measurement worth considering when it comes to being LGBT because at this point anyone can be ~valid~ and that’s where the conversation shuts down. If a label is “valid” then any criticism leveraged towards it will be met with a wall of “but x is valid so this doesn’t matter,” no matter how rightful, no matter how well-meant. It isn’t about whether or not x identity is valid or whether y should/should not be included, because that’s not what the community is about. Questions like those only benefit corporations during pride month to start selling more to us using increasingly specific flags, it’s only to divide the community and hyperfocuses on individuality above anything else.

It is part of a bigger problem here, the commodification of identity and the self because of late-stage capitalism goes hand in hand with distancing yourself from others and any similarity & community you could share with them. The complexities of your own experiences with relation to gender and sexuality will always be unique to you. A lesbian who grew up closeted in a deeply homophobic household in London will have different experiences and views than an openly proud lesbian in Hong Kong. This doesn’t mean either of them are any less of a lesbian, nor does it mean that either of them need to label themselves with some hyperspecific microlabel that “better fits” their circumstances and the way they experience attraction etc.

The LGBT community is a community for a reason, it is about how we are connected through our struggles, through our shared marginalization, through our understanding of, solidarity for, each other. Making it out to be about “inclusivity” when that’s more a buzzword along the lines of “diversity” for suit-clad executives to circlejerk over, or about how “valid” any given identity is, is to lose sight of that. It is to derail the conversation about community and sameness to talk about individuality.

and btw I don't believe in bi-pan solidarity because if you really listened to what bisexuals are saying you wouldn't be identifying as pan 🤷

people who are like "hey rainbow capitalism isn't so bad! it's necessary!" are the same ones who were angry at the us military ban for LGBT people. why do you want gay people to participate in the oppressors' structure

its like. if you dont like your pride flag for some convoluted reason just use the gilbert baker one or the inclusive stripe & trans + black/brown stripe triangle one. stopppp making new flags like seriously stop it stop making us easier to commercialize and more divided and more separated its a community its not about having a graphic to put around your twitter icon or on your favs cheek for an edit its nice to have a flag and a label but it literally doesnt matter we are in this shit together and that is the Point. and i hope you die i hope we both die amen

a happy pride month to queers, fags, and dykes specifically

The “gaze” in male gaze was never about portraying attractive women. It’s Tarantino using his own hands to gratuitously choke out a woman in Inglorious Basterds, it’s every evocation of the “born sexy yesterday” trope, it’s the exoticism of women of color. I’m tired of hearing white women call some shot of a white guy’s pecs “the female gaze.” It misses the point and diminishes the violence done to these women to whitewash the gaze to “women are shown being attractive”, and by using “female gaze” to refer to any man being shown attractively you’re doubly erasing the history of gay and bi men in film.

That reminds me of that one infuriating post that was like “if you don’t understand an academic paper, it probably means it was poorly written”…. Besties, romans, countrymen, if you don’t understand an academic paper it’s probably because it was written for a handful of experts in the very specific subfield for which it is relevant, and as someone who is almost certainly NOT one of those handful of experts it’s not in your realm of immediate comprehension. In many (most? all?) fields if you take even one step to the left of your scope of research you’re going to end up spending a lot of time catching up on context. Shockingly, this is because there’s a lot of information out there in the world, and you don’t know all of it. That doesn’t make you stupid, or the author stupid. No one has to be stupid in this scenario. This is a process called learning, just chill on it

idk im really tired of 15-17 year olds who have never interacted with the gay community irl and spend too much time on tiktok trying to act like the authority on all that is lgbt+ 

I genuinely want Harry Potter to go obsolete. Like I want Universal Studios to have to close down the HP section cause no one goes anymore. I want TV stations to stop playing it because no one watches the marathons anymore. I want bookstores to stop carrying it because it's no longer in demand. I want to go on ao3 and see that the most recent work was a year ago because the fandom is dead. I want people to forget what ravenclaw and hufflepuff mean (I also want to wear my school tie without being asked if I'm a gryffindor). I want people to see emma watson and name every other work she's done. I want people to look back and cringe and be like yeah I was into that as a kid, embarrassing i know. I genuinely hope and pray for the collapse of the entire Harry Potter franchise and I'd throw a party the day it happens.

no this isn’t happening

all these posts about people clutching their pearls about seeing bare titties at pride make me laugh because at last year's pride i met a cishet guy who had no idea what was going on and had joined because he saw bare titties and thought "those people look like they are having fun, and also i can see tits for free" and he asked me about what was happening and let me explain LGBT struggles for some time before telling me he had a transgender cousin and he was going to make sure to be there for her in the future. bare tits will be the beacon to world peace

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